Income, consumption, saving and wealth by category of households in 2003 Annual national accounts - base 2005
Warning: the results of the survey below refer to the base 2005 of the national accounts. They are meant to be compared with the results of the 2012 provisional account - 2010 finalized account campaign available in the archives of the "National accounts - Public finances" topic.
Social transfers in kind, gross adjusted disposable income and actual final consumption of households in 2003 Annual national accounts - base 2005
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Paru le :20/06/2013
Social transfers in kind, adjusted disposable income and actual final consumption of "ordinary" households for the year 2003 are broken down according to four criteria : standard of living quintile, household composition, age of the head of the household and professional category of the head of the household.
The participation of Insee to an international expert group led by OECD and Eurostat to measure disparities between households in a national account framework, has led to the introduction of new criteria : the main source of income and household type classification. In addition, the criteria "Size of the urban unit of residence of the household" is introduced to have a geographic dimension.
Social transfers in kind are individual goods and services provided to households by general government units or non-profit institutions serving households (NPISHs), free of charge or at prices that are not economically significant. They include:
- social benefits in kind that fall within the scope of social protection, i.e., market goods and services supplied directly by general government and those that recipient households purchase themselves and for which they are later reimbursed (medicines, healthcare, housing benefits);
- transfers of non-market individual goods and services, particularly education and health.
These services are valued at the sum of production costs.
Social transfers in kind are added to gross disposable income to form adjusted disposable income which takes into account all the types of income and allows to draw more accurate comparisons of the standards of living.
Likewise, social transfers in kind are added to final household consumption expenditures to form actual final consumption, which therefore includes all goods and services actually used or consumed, regardless of how they are paid for.
The breakdown of the social transfers in kind, adjusted disposable income and actual final consumption by category of households was carried out using several INSEE surveys relating to the households. These surveys refer only to the ordinary households resident in the french mainland. The resulting tables by category of households thus correspond to this scope. An additional table offers supplementary references on the field of the national accounts which includes the persons living in the overseas departments and the persons living in collective households.
Social transfers in kind, adjusted disposable income and actual final consumption of "ordinary" households in 2003
References on the whole of the field of the national accounting for 2003
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The average income, consumption, saving and wealth of the households are essential statistical data, in order to analyse the standards of living of the inhabitants of a country and in order to draw comparisons between various countries. However, these data must be enriched by information on their distribution, in order to apprehend the disparities between households and to bring closer macroeconomic and microeconomic measures of the same aggregates.
In the survey concerning the "Income, consumption, saving and wealth by category of households in 2003", four criteria of distinction between the households were at first selected to study these disparities : the standard of living (measured by the quintiles of gross disposable income per consumption unit), the household composition, the age of the head of the household and the socio-professional category of the head of the household. The disposable income, the consumption expenditure and the saving ratio of the year 2003 can thus be compared for the different categories of households.
The current release takes into account new criteria : the main source of income, the household type classification and the size of the urban unit of residence of the household. These results have been established within the framework of the OECD-Eurostat expert group to measure disparities between households in a national account framework.
These results follow the recommendations of the Stiglitz Commission on "The Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress". The Stiglitz Commission suggested to give more prominence to the distribution of income, consumption and wealth in the analysis of the material well-being of the households. It also recommended that households income and consumption measure should include goods and services in kind provided by general government units and NPISH.